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Our Street: The Curve Takeover

Free

Step into this playful and engaging community space where the whole family can unleash their creative side and join in with the fun and games.

Two young boys covered in mud stand on train tracks in a rural setting, looking towards the camera.
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Cinema

Senior Community Screening: Monster

When her young son begins to act strange, a single mother demands answers from his school, in Hirokazu Kore-eda's mysterious drama. 

Barbican architecture
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Tours & public spaces

Architecture Tours

Discover the vast, bold and brutal Barbican estate on our 90 minute Architecture Tours.

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Theatre & dance Tours & public spaces

Backstage Tours

Step behind the scenes and see the Barbican Theatre from a new perspective on our 60 minute Backstage Tour

The Kiss Me, Kate ensemble perform, a group of dancers jump in the air, lit by a red light.
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Theatre & dance

Kiss Me, Kate

‘Sexy & Sassy with great songs, hot dancing and smart gags.’ (Daily Mail) this five star new production is ‘a supremely lovely way to spend a Summer evening’ (The Independent). 

A black and white wide lens photograph by photographer Yant.
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Library

Monumentality: Photography Exhibition

Free

Monumentality: having the quality of being larger than life; of heroic scale.

children playing jump rope
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Art & design

Francis Alys: Ricochets

A new immersive exhibition celebrating the universality and ingenuity of play: Ricochets is the largest institutional show in the UK by internationally renowned artist Francis Alÿs in almost 15 years.

Three colourful illustrated characters bouncing on space hoppers
Event
Art & design Cinema Library Talks & events Theatre & dance Tours & public spaces

Our Street: The Curve Takeover

Free

Step into this playful and engaging community space where the whole family can unleash their creative side and join in with the fun and games.

Image of Barbican Backstage Tours
Event
Theatre & dance Tours & public spaces

Backstage Tours

Step behind the scenes and see the Barbican Theatre from a new perspective on our 60 minute Backstage Tour

Barbican architecture
Event
Tours & public spaces

Architecture Tours

Discover the vast, bold and brutal Barbican estate on our 90 minute Architecture Tours.

The Kiss Me, Kate ensemble perform, a group of dancers jump in the air, lit by a red light.
Event
Theatre & dance

Kiss Me, Kate

‘Sexy & Sassy with great songs, hot dancing and smart gags.’ (Daily Mail) this five star new production is ‘a supremely lovely way to spend a Summer evening’ (The Independent). 

A black and white wide lens photograph by photographer Yant.
Event
Library

Monumentality: Photography Exhibition

Free

Monumentality: having the quality of being larger than life; of heroic scale.

children playing jump rope
Event
Art & design

Francis Alys: Ricochets

A new immersive exhibition celebrating the universality and ingenuity of play: Ricochets is the largest institutional show in the UK by internationally renowned artist Francis Alÿs in almost 15 years.

Three colourful illustrated characters bouncing on space hoppers
Event
Art & design Cinema Library Talks & events Theatre & dance Tours & public spaces

Our Street: The Curve Takeover

Free

Step into this playful and engaging community space where the whole family can unleash their creative side and join in with the fun and games.

Barbican architecture
Event
Tours & public spaces

Architecture Tours

Discover the vast, bold and brutal Barbican estate on our 90 minute Architecture Tours.

Image of Barbican Backstage Tours
Event
Theatre & dance Tours & public spaces

Backstage Tours

Step behind the scenes and see the Barbican Theatre from a new perspective on our 60 minute Backstage Tour

Godzilla dominates a landscape.
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Cinema

All Kaiju Attack!: Mothra Vs. Godzilla + introduction...

Our kaiju celebration kicks off with one of the greatest films of the genre, a battle royale between the two most beloved giant beasts – a rampaging Godzilla against monster-God Mothra.

The Kiss Me, Kate ensemble perform, a group of dancers jump in the air, lit by a red light.
Event
Theatre & dance

Kiss Me, Kate

‘Sexy & Sassy with great songs, hot dancing and smart gags.’ (Daily Mail) this five star new production is ‘a supremely lovely way to spend a Summer evening’ (The Independent). 

A black and white wide lens photograph by photographer Yant.
Event
Library

Monumentality: Photography Exhibition

Free

Monumentality: having the quality of being larger than life; of heroic scale.

children playing jump rope
Event
Art & design

Francis Alys: Ricochets

A new immersive exhibition celebrating the universality and ingenuity of play: Ricochets is the largest institutional show in the UK by internationally renowned artist Francis Alÿs in almost 15 years.

Three colourful illustrated characters bouncing on space hoppers
Event
Art & design Cinema Library Talks & events Theatre & dance Tours & public spaces

Our Street: The Curve Takeover

Free

Step into this playful and engaging community space where the whole family can unleash their creative side and join in with the fun and games.

Image of Barbican Backstage Tours
Event
Theatre & dance Tours & public spaces

Backstage Tours

Step behind the scenes and see the Barbican Theatre from a new perspective on our 60 minute Backstage Tour

Barbican architecture
Event
Tours & public spaces

Architecture Tours

Discover the vast, bold and brutal Barbican estate on our 90 minute Architecture Tours.

The Kiss Me, Kate ensemble perform, a group of dancers jump in the air, lit by a red light.
Event
Theatre & dance

Kiss Me, Kate

‘Sexy & Sassy with great songs, hot dancing and smart gags.’ (Daily Mail) this five star new production is ‘a supremely lovely way to spend a Summer evening’ (The Independent). 

Two children eat biscuits on a street in an old photography from mid-20th Century.
Event
Cinema

Francis Alÿs: Recreations: Three Films on Children's Play

A trio of films on childhood which form a dialogue with the documentary project Children’s Games, curated in response to our Francis Alÿs: Ricochets exhibition.

Sappho's drag king open mic night at Grow Hackney
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Contemporary music Talks & events Tours & public spaces

Our Street Late: SlayStation X Sappho Events

Young Barbican

Join us for a night of interactive games, drag performances, tarot reading, board games and more as these two trailblazing queer-led collectives take over Our Street for one night only.

A black and white wide lens photograph by photographer Yant.
Event
Library

Monumentality: Photography Exhibition

Free

Monumentality: having the quality of being larger than life; of heroic scale.

children playing jump rope
Event
Art & design

Francis Alys: Ricochets

A new immersive exhibition celebrating the universality and ingenuity of play: Ricochets is the largest institutional show in the UK by internationally renowned artist Francis Alÿs in almost 15 years.

Three colourful illustrated characters bouncing on space hoppers
Event
Art & design Cinema Library Talks & events Theatre & dance Tours & public spaces

Our Street: The Curve Takeover

Free

Step into this playful and engaging community space where the whole family can unleash their creative side and join in with the fun and games.

Barbican architecture
Event
Tours & public spaces

Architecture Tours

Discover the vast, bold and brutal Barbican estate on our 90 minute Architecture Tours.